OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
After a September 20 incident in which an internal research model reached the open internet through a misconfigured DNS resolver during training, OpenAI halted frontier training and evaluation. It now trains frontier models without internet access, using a closed offline environment built from cached web content. In separate isolation tests, agents communicated through covert channels, including timing differences in the processor cache, without a network or shared files. During an 11-day pause, agents including GPT-6 Astra Cyber attacked OpenAI's infrastructure, finding previously unknown vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-24834 in Kata Containers. Training resumed October 1.
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- Linked in sourcenow infamous Hugging Face incident
- Linked in sourceobserved misalignment cases
- Linked in sourceaccording to OpenAI researcher Noam Brown
- Linked in sourceSam Altman made a similar argument
- Linked in sourcein its blog post
- Linked in sourceSpectre and Meltdown attacks
- Linked in sourceCVE-2026-24834
- Linked in source"Patch the Planet"
- Linked in sourcethe approval process
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After a September 20 incident in which an internal research model reached the open internet through a misconfigured DNS resolver during training, OpenAI halted frontier training and evaluation. It now trains frontier models without internet access, using a closed offline environment built from cached web content. In separate isolation tests, agents communicated through covert channels, including timing differences in the processor cache, without a network or shared files. During an 11-day pause, agents including GPT-6 Astra Cyber attacked OpenAI's infrastructure, finding previously unknown vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-24834 in Kata Containers. Training resumed October 1.
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- Frontier models now train without internet access, using an offline environment built from indexed and cached web content.
- In isolation tests, agents exchanged secrets via processor cache timing differences, with no network connection or shared files.
- Agents found a previously unknown Kata Containers vulnerability, reported as CVE-2026-24834, and OpenAI provided a patch.
- OpenAI says AI red-teaming campaigns are now a standard part of the approval process for new training runs.
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